Kate ColemanAAEEBL Researcher
UNSW
Curiouser and Curiouser
‘down the rabbit hole’
Here we go!Celebrating the Curious,
Creative and Capable Learner at AAEEBL 2012
AAEEBL Annual Conference on ePortfolios:
Adventures in WonderlandCuriouser and
curiouser
The Emperor's
New Clothes
the the Emperor Emperor has no has no clothesclothes
“we can't just tell the good stories, they have the power to change, we need the champions of change, but we lose the opportunity to be able to say the Emperor has no clothes sometimes.
how do we privilege assessment? Why do we do eportfolios? Eportfolios are about students learning. They are assessment as learning”.
So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had
begun to think that very few things indeed were
really impossible.
MUGSconnect and reflect as a community of users to evolve an eportfolio together
The Rabbit
Sends in a Little
BillLearning, Knowing, and Reflecting: Literacies for
the 21st Century The book based upon connecting three categories of virtue in teaching and learning.
1. character is regarded as the development of trustworthiness, sincerity, risk-taking, and courage-perseverance.
2. intellect, encompasses critical thinking, truthfulness, accuracy, open-mindedness, and impartiality.
3. care is predicated upon tolerance, patience,compassion, and sympathetic attention, and sympathetic attention.
Now this is what I came here for!
My own evidence that this works and should be being used more at
home.
•The
If you think If you think eportfolios are eportfolios are
transformational, transformational, why donwhy don’’t you have t you have
one?one?Wende GarrisonWende Garrison
On the eportfolio journey
You can't write the wrong thing in reflective writing. You are the authority of your own Experience.
Reflective writing in medicine, story or narrative writing.
Write a story of Experience. Through this you find out what you know and remember. Max van maven, "stories are a form of everyday theorizing "
Through reflection we bring our espoused values into practice.We can only reflect effectively if we are trying to get out of our own little bubble.
Why fiction? It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth What we write today is open to change, stories and narrative are fluid.
Reflective writing technique-free writing- write anything that comes head into your head for 6 minutes (Coleridge) it enables us to suspend our disbelief. You may write a list, you may not think about it. It's private.
Use metaphor, If you were weather, what weather would you be now?
Reflective writing can very - Therapeutic, but we don't need to share it all the time. Writing is different form telling and talking; writing is different because you communicate with
that.
3 stages, Using the voice is private, reading it back, reading it aloud to others, you give it voice.
Use of words is vital.For assessment, it's good to follow this process then select from it for the assessment.
Short science fiction reflection on the future Intel
Advice from a Caterpillar
'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from
here?'
'I don't much care where —' said Alice.
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice
'T
That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said
the Cat.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat
'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm
mad. You're mad.’
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'
Career Development Learning and
ePortfolios in the Medical Sciences
Are we allowed to talk about this?
DOTS DOTS
TextCareer development learning
empowers individuals to
identify, develop and articulate
the skills, qualifications,
experiences, attributes and
knowledge that will enable
them to make an effective
transition into their chosen
futures, and manage their
careers as lifelong learners,
with a realistic and positive
attitude’ (Stanbury 2005).
Who Stole the Tarts?Give your evidence,' said the King; 'and don't be nervous, or I'll have you executed on
the spot.'This did not seem to
encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting from one foot
to the other
Never fear - I Never fear - I have these have these
here for you!here for you!
Alice's Evidence
Valid Assessment of
Learning in Undergraduate
Education.
Using different Using different rubrics for one rubrics for one task, can we task, can we
do this?do this?
Standards & Standards & value rubricsvalue rubricseverywhere! everywhere!
"Overcoming Apathy" & "How Students Learn"
no such thing no such thing as learning as learning styles - they styles - they
have learning have learning preferencespreferences
“If there is no cognition there is no learning”attention in the process - no hook, then you don't have them!cognitive neurosciences, the way the brain grows and develops. As we do stuff we get better and better at it. social neuroscience, interactions change us physically.humans have connections, we work with one another and develop the contagion.we influence each others levels.
I have enough information then I get brain overload. When marking, when do we really stop reading?How do we move from novice to expert? how do the details actually bring the beauty to the topic?we need to find the details, what's the key component that makes it interesting? we need to teach our students how to learn - they don't know how to learn in our discipline. Teachers teach by thinking, we don't teach that. nobody teaches us how. the pedagogical stuff is its own thing- the theory has been investigated, all learning needs to be investigated. Dr. Todd Zakrajsek
Overcoming Apathy & How Students Learn
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland or Through the
Looking-Glass?
Despite everything that's happened, nothing has
really changed..... or has it?
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